"Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving……" — Noam Chomsky
"Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could…
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Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of…
— Thomas Adams
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep…
— Amy Poehler
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not…
— Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
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And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he…
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Captain Ahab: I do not sleep, I die.
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Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.
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Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured…
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